During the winter months, October to April, the Winnipeg St location will be closed. You can still find out great products online on our Facebook Page, message our Facebook page or email service@northernemporium.ca

During this time, Northern Emporium is still handling local delivery for courier shipments (UPs, Canpar, Sameday Courrier, FedEx ground, DHL Gardwine) on Tuesdays and Thursdays and delivering to Pic Mobert on Friday’s.

We look forward to bringing you new unique gift and home items in the new season.

Northern Emporium will be opening soon for the season! Our goal is May long weekend.

Now that Mother Nature is cooperating and letting some spring temperatures stick around we are able to get in and spend some time getting the shop ready for you to visit.

We will be featuring an expanded line of Himalayan Salt products. Lamps, candle holders and edible salt will be in stock.

New this year are the agate slice tealight holders. You have to see them to get the full effect! Pewter figurines are beautifully illuminated through a dyed slice of agate.

Handmade soy wax candles and melts will also be back in stock along with all natural bath and body products.

A new line of handmade, useful Stuff & Things, like key racks, coat hooks, shelves, signs and other cool items made from reclaimed, up-cycled and recycled materials will give you the option of one of a kind gift giving!

Spoiler alert! Come and check out the Green Gables Reunion street party during Winnie’s Hometown Festival, 3rd weekend in August.

Have you ever walked into somewhere, inhaled deeply and just smiled? Soft and subtle scents can have a huge positive impact on your day. Perking up your mood, feeling revitalized and rejuvenated, calming anger and discontentment, relieving stress. Theses are just a few ways that you can be affected by the air around you. Taking it to the next step…. making the air around you have the qualities that you want to benefit from. Enter Aromatherapy! Continue reading Aromatherapy….→

Luna is a 7month old miniature dachshund. She weighs in at about 7 pounds.

A scarf for your favourite pooch is simple to make! Directions are for a small to medium sized dog with a collar that is 3/4″ wide.

Cut a square from valentine fabric, 10″ x 10″

For a larger dog adjust the size of your starting square accordingly. For a retriever about 15″ is a good size.

Fold your square in half, right sides together, to make a triangle

With the folded edge away from you cut off the ‘points’ on the right and left side of the fold. I make the length of the cut 1″ so that it will accommodate the 3/4″ collar size.

If you are making this for a larger dog (15″ starter square) adjust your cut line to be approximately 1-3/4-2″ long to accommodate a larger collar.

Open your ‘triangle’ and fold a 1/4″ seam allowance on your freshly cut edges towards the wrong side of the fabric and stitch down.

It should look like this!

Fold back into a triangle, right sides together. Stitch a 1/4″ seam along all raw edges. Leave the folded over edge ‘open’.

Trim off the tip on the bottom edge, be careful to not cut through the stitching. Turn the scarf right side out.

Once you get it turned press it flat. Topstitch a seam 1″ from the folded edge, keeping the ends open. This will create the ‘tube’ that you slide the collar into. Also topstitch the perimeter of the triangle.

Slide your dog’s (or cat’s) collar through the tube pocket and you are done!

One of the most frustrating things about living in the north is the lack of locally available products and variety to choose from. Many companies are making online shopping so easy and online ordering has become a regular way of doing business for many people in our area .

Our shop and staff have recently committed to helping get your orders to you. Currently, we are set to receive small packages for local delivery on behalf of UPS and Canpar twice a week. We receive, sort and deliver to your home. If we miss you, we will leave you a note and hold your parcels for pick up at the Northern Emporium, 210 Winnipeg St.

 Residents of White River and Pic Mobert, ages newborn to 3 are eligible to be entered

 $15 entry fee. Entry fee includes the photo shoot and the framed display photo to keep when the contest is done.

 Written parental/guardian consent is required

 Only photos by KM Trudeau Photography will be displayed

 Display photos are ‘photographer’s choice’

 Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded on March 1st, 2017 and determined by count of coin donations. The photo generating the largest coin donation will be 1st place, second largest will be 2nd place and third largest will be 3rd place

 Photos will be on display in the Northern Visions Studio window starting February 14th.

 Voting jars will be at the Museum and Northern Emporium

 Voting will be open to the public and votes can be made by donation of coins (sorry no paper currency accepted) Feb 14-28th

Have you ever heard those words? Living alone, I hear them in my head as I mentally go through possibilities when I’m hungry for “a little something.” This generally means that I’ve eaten well for the day, but there’s that one little corner of my body (probably located in my mind), that really would like a little fun food.

That being said, I have a go-to recipe that I invented when some health challenges made it hard for me to get enough calories in a day, so I needed something that was nutritious, full of anti-inflammatories, and most of all YUMMY.

So I made up a batch of what I call Nut Butter Spread, which consists of ground nuts, healthy oils, natural sweeteners with a low glycemic index, and a variety of seeds and dried fruits. It’s great with apple slices, on crackers or toast, and some of my friends just like to eat it by the spoonful.

Now I‘ve had lots of requests for this snack, so I decided to standardize the recipe and boy is that a hard thing to do! After much head-scratching (not during the actual cooking process), I wound up with 5 versions of my nut butters, of which my favourite is what I call Adult Peanut Butter, with a chili pepper kick and super spices like turmeric, cinnamon, and ginger. Add some sesame seeds, hemp hearts, organic toasted coconut and a few “secret” ingredients and yum! Stop by the Northern Emporium tomorrow and check out my samples – there will be nut butters, healthy homemade bread, and even some sweet snacks. We’ll be open from 1-4. Hope to see you there, and bring a corner of your tummy that needs a little something.

Throughout the year the weather can take a toll on your skin. Dry chapped hands, cracked lips, rough elbows. Winter seems to bring out the worst and take away the best. Moisturizing is important in keeping your skin soft and supple…… preparing to moisturize is often overlooked

Helga makes this great foaming sugar scrub. Different blends of essential oils in an exfoliating sugar base can be heaven to your skin. In a recent workshop we gave it a test.

If you have had the opportunity to see my chapped lips you will understand my elation completely! The best description of their condition at the start is sandpaper like texture. Ewwwww and so sore.

To use the sugar scrub first moisten your lips with plain warm water. Use about 1/8tsp of foaming sugar scrub on the end of your finger and gently rub it in a circular motion all over your lips. It smells divine but avoid tasting…. there is a soap component in the foaming scrub! The mild gritty texture of the scrub is exfoliating the dry dead skin.

After a minute or two rinse with warm water. The softness is immediately noticeable and the dry burning is gone! Moisturize with Helga’s alcohol free lip balm and you are all set and ready to try out the mistletoe!